Word: clavier
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...life is nonetheless full of music. After his morning walks he goes to the new grand piano sent to him by an admiring music lover of Buffalo, N.Y. "As I have done all my life long," he begins his musical day with preludes and fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier of Johann Sebastian Bach...
...Minor and the fugue of No. 7 in E Flat to complete the first eight of the 48 brain-and finger-cracking preludes and fugues-two in each of the 24 keys-that constitute the musician's bible and byword: Bach's great Wohltemperirtes Clavier (Well-Tempered Clavier...
...been playing Bach on the harpsichord in public for 46 years: the great Hungarian conductor, Arthur Nikisch (1855-1922) had long ago punningly tagged her "The Bachante." And she had performed all of Book I of the Well-Tempered Clavier last year in a series of Town Hall recitals to which her worshipful disciples-musicians, students and teachers alike-had flocked, music in hand. Some were occasionally surprised at her interpretations; Bach himself gave few hints of exactly how fast and how loud his music should be played. But few had failed to be impressed with her magnificent authority...
...time he was subsidized by Cellist Gerald Warburg (son of Banker Felix) and by a wealthy San Francisco family. He retired with his wife and cats to the Oregon seaside in 1941. There, while showing his lute-playing composer daughter how Bach used 48 themes in his Well-Tempered Clavier, he got the theme for the finale of his recent Suite Symphonique. "Suzanne and I were sitting on the little stone steps in the garden. I wrote - just like that -two pages of fugue motifs. The last one, which irritated her, is the one I used...
...analysis of London musical life is complete without some mention of the B.B.C.'s magnificent "Third Program." With a love for cycles, this program has broadcast B.B.C. sponsored recitals of the Bach cello suites, the Beethoven piano sonatas, the Well-Tempered Clavier suites, and the Mozart violin concerti; and in other fields has given a Shaw festival and innumerable "readings" of badly neglected English literature...